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PRINTER/S TYPE AND FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Application filed August 25, 1910, Serial No. 578,872. Renewed .Tu1y 19,1913. Serial No. 780,029.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Asa P. BROOKS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PrintersType and Furniture; and I do hereby deelare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved form ofinterlocking printers type, furniture and chase, and to this end theinvention consists of the novel devices and combinations of deviceshereinafter described and defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings; Figure 1 is a plan view showing a printerschase and type and furniture applied thereto and embodying my presentinvention; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line :0 m of Fig. 1, someparts being broken away; and, Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 00 8of Fi 1, some parts being broken away.

The numeral 1 indicates a chase of special design and which is madesegmental and is adapted for application to the cylinder of a printingpress. The chase is provided with a segmental bottom plate and anintegral marginal flange surrounding a seat that is adapted to containthe type, the so-called furniture, cuts,etc.,all seated directly on thesaid bottom plate. The type are indicated by the numeral 2 and are madeshort; and the strips which make up the so-called furniture areindicated by the numeral The so-called furniture strips 3 and the typeare formed on one edge with longitudinally extended grooves and on theiropposite edges are formed with projecting ribs, which, are adapted tointerlock, as best shown in Fig. 2. The grooves in the type and in thefurniture strips are indicated by the numeral 4:, while the ribs on thetype and on the furniture strips are indicated by the numeral 5. Theribs on the furniture or on the type are adapted to interlock with thegrooves (5 formed in one of the end portions of the chase flange. Theside portions of the marginal flange are undercut, as shown in Fig. 3,and the adjacent type and furniture are so formed as to interlock withsaid undercut side portions. The furniture strips 3 will usually, ofcourse, be made in different widths. Similar elements herein designatedas keys 7, are formed with corresponding grooves and ribs so that theyare adapted to be interposed between and interlocked with the furniturestrips, as shown in Fig. 2. These keys, however, are prefe ably madequite thin and narrow but they are provided with upwardly projected endsin the form of beveled heads 7, that are adapted to engage and hold thebeveled base block 8 of the stereotype plate or cut 9. The manner ofapplying the said keys in sets of four, or more, is shown by Figs. 1 and2 wherein the stereotype plate is placed upon two furniture strips andis interposed between other furniture strips and type.

By extending the heads of the keys 7 upward beyond the upper surfaces ofthe furniture blocks or strips, stereotype plates or cuts may be set upon the same furniture strips as are used in connection with the type. Inother words, the furniture strip or strips on which the stereotype plateis set up may be of the same thickness as the remainder of the furniturestrips, so that special strips for the stereotype plates or cuts arerendered unnecessary.

After the type, furniture strips, cuts, etc., are properly assembled inthe chase and interlocked with each other as shown in the drawings, theyare adapted to be held in such interlocking engagement by cooperatingpairs of wedge blocks 10 that are interposed between one end [lange ofthe chase and the adjacent furniture strips. Screws can be used insteadof wedges.

As is evident by inspection of Fig. 2, the type, furniture strips, keys,and the chase are all interlocked by the engaging grooves and ribs.These grooves and ribs while capable of being otherwise formed, arepreferably made V shaped in cross-section so that they will beaccurately alined when pressed together.

By referring to Fig. 3, it will be noted, that the furniture strips arecurved longitudinally to correspond with the curvature of the chase andthat the end surfaces of the same converge on lines that radiate fromthe axis of the are of curvature of the said chase. This is especiallydesirable in the type because it permits the best closed oint. possiblebetween the type, and hence, the best possible justification of thetype.

What I claim is: V V

The combination With a printers chase having a marginal flange formedintegral with and extending upward from the bottom of the chase,opposite side portions of the marginal flange being undercut, of typeand furniture seated directly on the bottom of the chase, the type andfurniture adjacent the aforesaid undercut portions of the marginalflange being interlocked With the latter, all of said type and furniturehaving interlocking ribs and grooves at their side Copies of this patentmay 'be obtained for faces and having a rib and groove interlockingconnection 'With one end portion of said marginal flange, and lockingmeans interposed between the opposite end portion of the marginal flangeand the type and furniture in the chase.

In testimony whereof I affixrmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ASA P. BROOKS. Witnesses:

BERNIOE Gr. WHEELER, HARRY D. KILGORE.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington;D. 0'.

